tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post6725260620459654257..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: The Verdict is in: Obama is NOT FDR - How About Hoover? Or LBJ?ed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-24292531048967646012010-06-29T16:25:40.545-04:002010-06-29T16:25:40.545-04:00By the way, what happens to teachers during a depr...By the way, what happens to teachers during a depression? What percentage got laid off during the 30's here in NYC?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-44822098634592169792010-06-29T16:19:11.669-04:002010-06-29T16:19:11.669-04:00I always thought that ultimately Obama was allowed...I always thought that ultimately Obama was allowed to become President mainly for riot insurance for the coming Depression.<br /><br />Maybe only half of the cities will be burned down, instead of the cities and the suburbs and . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-13574748743394194762010-06-29T12:49:56.040-04:002010-06-29T12:49:56.040-04:00Obama is most assuredly a person from the academic...Obama is most assuredly a person from the academic left. With a dollop of Chicago politics. His language, associations and actions betray this. This is not to say that he is not beholden to his corporate backers and benefactors. Hence the gobbleygook "Obamacare" as an effort to achieve the Holy Grail of the American Left: Universal Healhcare. <br />If you are suggesting he is a phoney shill there is no argument here. My suggestion is that he is destroying the Democratic brand on a number of fronts and for a number of motives...to the benefit of the Republicans.<br />Those of us concerned with the 'slobbering love affair' the ('liberal') press and other 'useful idiots' had with candidate Obama cannot resist this delicious moment of shadenfreude. The savior is, well, not so much!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-79809900689459562562010-06-29T12:16:35.998-04:002010-06-29T12:16:35.998-04:00Anonymous,
Obama is not and never has been "...Anonymous,<br /><br />Obama is not and never has been "from the left." His entire career shows him to be a liberal corporatist who was to community organizing what TFA is to career teaching, and received his initial political support from foundations - which are very careful about keeping the recipients of their largesse on a short leash - and then from Wall Street. <br /><br />It is a mistake to identify him with the Left (whatever that is in the US today), despite the triangulating rhetoric that might be temporarily needed to shore up his brand, or the illusions and self-deceptions some might have had about him as a candidate.<br /><br />As for twelve future years of Republican rule, perhaps, but not until Obama and a captive Democratic Party satisfy the Pete Petersons of the world by attacking Social Security and demonstrating their "fiscal responsibility." Just as a Republican was counterintuitively needed to establish trade with China, a Democrat - and, even better, a black one - is needed to cutback/privatize Social Security and finally bury the New Deal.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-2372014366363809332010-06-29T11:04:41.258-04:002010-06-29T11:04:41.258-04:00Obama is more like Jimmy Carter than LBJ. Economy ...Obama is more like Jimmy Carter than LBJ. Economy a mess, disenchantment of the previously adoring media, and an embarrassment overseas. Get ready for 12 years of Republican rule as was the case following the one-term Carter debacle.<br />It turns out that when a woefully inexperienced academic/community organizer from the left becomes president he fails. Aside from the slobbering press, who actually thought this fella was a good idea?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-18704687058887817892010-06-29T10:13:14.062-04:002010-06-29T10:13:14.062-04:00Based on the police state tactics used in Toronto ...Based on the police state tactics used in Toronto last weekend during the G20 meetings, Canada is no longer be the sanctuary people have assumed. <br /><br />And when their elites move to allow the expropriation of their water because the entire Southwest is facing extinction due to Lake Mead drying up (at current levels of decline, the intake pipes will become useless sometime in the next decade), things are likely to get even dicier.<br /><br />Having based its prosperity on "accumulation by dispossession" in the developing world over the past 30 years, neoliberal policies and the structural adjustment programs that are a self-interested response to the resulting credit crises are now coming home to roost here. Thus, the orgy of school and public service cutbacks and privatizations, and the looming cutbacks in Medicare and Social Security - the job for which Obama was hired to provide a Black and Democratic face for- directed at the "lesser people," as Alan Simpson indiscretely but revealingly said.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.com